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62 days after the resignation of Boris Johnson, six votes later, and after seven eliminated candidates, came what was expected worldwide: the name of the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The current head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, has won in the final vote to the former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak, who had won all the previous elimination processes, and this time, has been defeated. Truss, […]

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Gas prices could rise-even more-after the Russian supply cut. The scenario is especially delicate for Germany, where not even high fuel reserves guarantee a winter without shocks. The rise in prices and the fear of gas cuts has caused many Europeans to consider spending the winter in warmer places like the Canary Islands. Some governments, such as the German one, study to encourage them with aids that reach 500 euros. […]

The European Commission (EC) has registered a citizens' initiative to ensure that people born after 2010 cannot buy tobacco, even after reaching the legal age. The proposal is aimed at banning it. The aim is to achieve a tobacco-free environment and establish the first European generation without tobacco by 2030. The initiative also calls for measures to achieve other goals, such as making beaches and riverbanks free of tobacco and […]

An attraction has crashed to the ground in an amusement park in India. A video, captured by a person who was at the fair at the time, shows the terrible impact of the attraction against the ground when it was full of people. An investigation is under way to clarify what happened. In the video you can see the attraction is a rotating wheel that goes up and down. It […]

At least 10 people have been killed and 15 others injured in a stabbing incident in the province of Saskatchewan (Canada). The events occurred around 5:40 (local time) in the early morning, when the police received the first call. The attacks have occurred in several places, being thirteen different scenarios, according to authorities. The perpetrators, Damien and Myles Sanderson, are wanted as they are missing while fleeing the scene. "The […]

Loyal to the end. This is how one could define the current British Foreign Minister, Liz Truss, who has been one of the big heavyweights within the British government led by Boris Johnson, and who refused to leave him while half the Conservative Party demanded that he resign. Truss, far from being a woman like Angela Merkel, tends to be compared to Margaret Thatcher, having been nicknamed 'the new Iron […]

August 31, 1997 is one of the saddest dates in history. After midnight, a car suffered a fatal accident and all but one of its occupants lost their lives. Inside the car was princess Diana of Wales, accompanied by her then sentimental partner, Dodi al-Fayed, its driver, Henri Paul, and her bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, who was the only one who managed to survive. Diana of Wales, after divorcing Charles of […]

Much has happened since 1842. World wars, pandemics, crises and all kinds of events that have contributed to us being where we are today. However, something that has not changed is the recognition of Gibraltar, by the United Kingdom, as a British city. Gibraltar had been under British rule for over 300 years, particularly since the Treaty of Utrecht had been signed in 1713. In 1842 it was granted the […]